Mil­i­tary Dis­charge Hand­made Scrap Book and Comics Album
The com­pul­sory two years of mil­i­tary ser­vice was a rite of pas­sage for every Soviet guy. When one turned eigh­teen  —  unless for sick­ness or injury  —  it was time to be called in for the mil­i­tary life  —  two years in the bar­racks. The guys usu­ally bonded well and dur­ing their spare time […]

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When the new Soviet coun­try was born, the peo­ple were promised a won­der­ful future under the social­ism  —  just a few more years, the bill­boards boasted  —  and we’ll live in a glo­ri­ous state. How­ever the early days were more than gloomy: the  run­down econ­omy, dis­ori­ented soci­ety, the reek of fear and uncer­tainty  —  and that clearly can be seen through […]

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The offi­cial his­tory often misses a very impor­tant and inter­est­ing point in the course of the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion  –  not every­body knows that Vladimir Lenin, a for­mi­da­ble mind behind the Great Octo­ber Patri­otic Rev­o­lu­tion and the leader of all com­mu­nists, had less than straight­for­ward love life  –  apart from a wife, he had a mis­tress  –  and not only that, these […]

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Here is a fine col­lec­tion of images of Moscow win­ters, dat­ing from 1920s till 1991. Sadly many places por­trayed on these pho­tographs are gone now, just like the Soviet Union itself, yet lest we for­get.  Please read on to see the image of the first set of traf­fic lights in Moscow CBD in late 1930s, […]

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If we were to pick one  the most con­fus­ing ques­tion from the his­tory of the USSR, no doubt it would have to be the Christ­mas date issue. Despite the fact that the Russ­ian Ortho­dox Church branches out of the Chris­t­ian com­mu­nity, the tra­di­tional day to observe Christ­mas is dif­fer­ent to the rest of the Christian […]

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A Glance at the Soviet Lifestyle, Cap­tured by Marc Riboud.
This is our third post devoted to Marc Riboud, an out­stand­ing French pho­tog­ra­pher, who trav­eled exten­sively through­out the Soviet Union.  His images cap­tured an array of every­day life episodes from the lives of the Soviet peo­ple.  Here is the first lot  —  and here is the sec­ond one. […]

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